Introduction

Welcome to proloquo2goforautism!
There are a range of topics and material available on this website to help enhance your knowledge of assistive technology in relation to children with autism and to discover how a specific piece of assistive technology ‘proloquo2go’ has changed teaching and learning. The many things that you can expect to see on the following pages of this website begin with the foundation pages consisting of key definitions of autism, assistive technology and why it is important. The purpose of these pages is to firstly make you aware of exactly what autism is and provide an understanding of how assistive technology plays an important role in the daily lives of individuals with autism. Continuing on from this, as the key piece of technology this website focuses on is an assistive app known as proloquo2go you will find that there is a page dedicated to understanding the app where you will find everything you need to know such as where it is available to access, how it works and its key features and functions. Moreover, In order to find out how proloquo2go has changed teaching and learning within educational settings it is crucial to know how it is used in a classroom by teachers and pupils, to make sense of how it the app has impacted or changed classroom learning and teaching. This information is also available to access on this website and the purpose of these pages is to help you to gain knowledge on teaching and learning in the classroom with proloquo2go in addition to teaching and learning before proloquo2go which uncovers the visible changes that stem from the use of this technology, you will also find theoretical links made to the notion of constructivism and social constructivism. Moving on, you will also find two highly informative journal article reviews and website reviews in connection to the topic of assistive technology and autism, these reviews focus deeply on engaging with the articles and webpages to analyse them and share critical discussions regarding the content. In order to summarise the various components from each page and to further discuss how proloquo2go has changed teaching and learning for children with autism in key stage 1, there is an informative final page titled ‘so what?’ which covers these questions and topics.